France not only attracts tourists with its grape fields but also fascinates world tourists with its orange and lemon farms. Located in the South of France, Menton is an idyllic village with a mild climate suitable for citrus and lemon trees. Every year, around mid-February, when the lemon trees are full of fruit, the city will hold a Lemon Festival.
During the festival, Menton seems to awaken in the cold winter days, the whole city becomes vibrant with cars lurking through the streets and the endlessly charming farandolo dance of people from the small paths towards the city. out to the blue sea. Clear laughter filled with joy on happy faces everywhere in the festival filled with the yellow colors of lemons and oranges.
This grand event with the main theme being a lemon comes from a great idea from a group of hotel managers to attract tourists to Menton. They proposed to organize an exhibition of flowers and citrus fruit trees in the Riviera hotel garden. The event made a strong impression and attracted the attention and excitement of local people and especially tourists. The very next year, cars covered with golden oranges and lemons began to take to the streets with beautiful and hot girls. In 1934, the city government encouraged people to express their creativity and innovation with works of art made from oranges and lemons, and thus the unique lemon festival was born.
For nearly 80 years, the festival is still held regularly. Each year, the festival organizers will come up with a theme and the works displayed on the street will be shaped according to that theme. The topics in recent years have been cinema, rock & roll, famous architectural works, animals... with the participation of many experts and visual artists.
Artisans use hundreds of tons of oranges and lemons to build unique works such as the Taj Maha temple, windmills... during festival seasons, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world. visit even in cold winter weather.
Not only lemons, the most beautiful oranges with vibrant colors are also used to create breathtakingly beautiful works. To complete these fruit masterpieces, the artisans of Menton city had to prepare very early, from selecting ripe oranges and lemons in the garden to coming up with ideas, implementing and completing the ideas.
There are many splendid and shiny "masterpieces" appearing during the festival, visitors will surely be very impressed and excited.
